Bug Fixes

• hostess fmt -n works properly again, and has more specific behavior:
• hostess fmt will replace duplicates without asking for help
• hostess fmt -n will not replace duplicates, and will exit with error if any are found (#41)
• hostess fmt with and without -n will exit with error if conflicting hostnames are found because hostess cannot fix the conflicts

Bug Fixes

• Format will no longer exit with an error when encountering a duplicate entry

Breaking Changes

• Windows now has a platform-specific hosts format with one IP and hostname per line

Bug Fixes

• Fix hostfiles not saving on Windows #27

0.4.0 is a major refactor of the frontend (CLI) focused on simplifying the UI
and code, supporting newer Go tooling (i.e. go mod), and removing external
dependencies.

Breaking Changes

• Moved CLI to github.com/cbednarski/hostess. go get should now do what you probably wanted the first time.
• Moved library to github.com/cbednarski/hostess/hostess
• Many command aliases and flags have been removed
• Hostlist.Enable and Hostlist.Disable now return an error instead of bool. Check against ErrHostnameNotFound.
• Several functions will now return ErrInvalidVersionArg instead of panicking in that case

Improvements

• Removed codegangsta/cli
• Removed aff command
• Removed del command (use rm instead)
• Removed list command (use ls instead)
• Removed fixed command (just run fmt)
• Command fix renamed to fmt
• Removed -s and -q flags. Errors are now shown always. Redirect stderr if you don't want to see them.
• Removed -f from various commands. Use fmt instead.
• Added Go mod support
• Added AppVeyor for Windows builds
• Overhauled the Makefile for easier builds

Features

• Added fixed subcommand which checks whether the hosts file is already formatted by hostess

Bug Fixes

• Show an error when there is a parsing failure instead of silently truncating the hosts file
• Global flags between hostess and the subcommand are no longer ignored
• Binary should now display the correct version of the software

This release fixes the following issues:

• #14
• #15

Also, codegangsta/cli is now vendored, so you can install this from source via:

go install github.com/cbednarski/hostess/...

Or, grab a pre-compiled binary below!

The initial release supports most of the planned functionality. The project has finally reached a point where it makes sense to release a binary.

Supported Platforms

• Tested on OSX, linux, and windows
• Builds for x86, x64, and ARM

Major Features

hostess add domain ip   # Add or replace a hosts entry for this domain pointing to this IP
hostess aff domain ip   # Add or replace a hosts entry in an off state
hostess del domain      # (alias rm) Remove a domain from your hosts file
hostess has domain      # exit code 0 if the domain is in your hostfile, 1 otherwise
hostess off domain      # Disable a domain (but don't remove it completely), exit 1 if entry is missing
hostess on domain       # Re-enable a domain that was disabled, exit 1 if entry is missing
hostess list            # (alias ls) List domains, target ips, and on/off status
hostess fix             # Rewrite your hosts file; use -n to dry run
hostess dump            # Dump your hostfile as json
hostess apply           # Add entries from a json file

Flags

-n   # Dry run. Show what will happen but don't do it; output to stdout
-4   # Limit operation to ipv4 entries
-6   # Limit operation to ipv6 entries